Media Meter Focus

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About Focus

This tool shows you four different views of the world. It maps the top 20 English language news sources for four types of media: newspapers, broadcast, magazine and online (digital native). Our goal is to discover the which news medium has the most comprehensive global coverage, where the blind spots are, and to discover how different types of media cover different countries. This is an exploratory analysis for a research paper.

About Media Meter

Media Meter is a suite of tools that track media attention across the Internet. Media attention matters - in quantity and quality. It helps determine what we talk about as a public and how we talk about it. This project tracks where media sources' attention goes and what that attention looks like across different countries in combination with diverse data sets like population and income.

How does this Work?

We are building out our ability to algorithmically detect the who, what, and where of online news. We start by pulling articles from the MediaCloud database. We pass those through an augmented version of the CLAVIN geoparsing package to find mentions of places. We also use the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer to pull out mentions of people. We run TF-IDF on the words in the articles to make the word cloud of "keywords" that are used more in each country.